On they came, swaying first one way and then another, keeping us in breathless suspense, but determined to hold our ground as long as possible when the shock of battle should come.
The first on the gospel-side was Pecuchet; but, too much moved, no doubt, he kept swaying his head right and left.
They had to stop, and, turning their backs to the storm, they remained face to face, belly to belly, holding with their four hands the swaying umbrella.
Then let them circle me, with interlacing arms, that I may see on all sides alabaster forms in graceful evolution, swaying like tall reeds bending over an amorous pool.
Looking out over the heads of the swaying crowd, she saw that Derry was dancing with Alma Drew.
The water going down hill, the trees of the forest spreading their wings, the wheat actually swaying like golden waves.
After the stifling swamp hunting, after the long exciting flight, to rock on this swaying corn and drink the rich milk of the grain, was to the Cardinal his first taste of nectar and ambrosia.
He followed that with a rippling song of the joy and fulness of spring, in notes as light and airy as the wind-blown soul of melody, and with swaying body kept time to his rhythmic measures.
Then the point of the boom swung slowly out of the fog, and there was the rescued man swinging and swaying at the end of it.
The distance was but a few paces, yet to traverse these seemed an interminable nightmare of swaying and stumbling.
A man opposite lounged on his cushion, his paper fallen to the floor, his eyes closed, his head swaying drunkenly in unison with the motion of the train.
By the time the driver ceased speaking the engine was on its way out of the building, and Seth, swaying to and fro, clung for dear life to the guard-rail, as the mighty machine was drawn swiftly over the pavement.
Shivers, shaking his head warningly at the girl, as the child bounced up from the impact, kicking her little feet together and turning a somersault on the swaying net.
The balloon stood swaying easily at its anchorage.
Phil saw that the lion was preparing to jump over his head; and, discovering this, the lad held one torch high above his head and kept it swaying there from side to side.
As the car bounded forward, swaying like a rocking ship over the rough roads, there came a sudden sound that made Rob's heart bound.
It was not long before I discovered that the uncertain swaying of the vehicle from side to side, and the hazardous manner in which we skirted the deep gullies, was due to the fact that our friend was overcome with hospitality.
When once, however, one drunken old foot was lifted over the pony for him, he swung himself into the saddle, and though swaying uncertainly, he managed to ride away.
We went back and, raising a big fly-wheel on its edge and supporting it with a wooden beam under each axle, we rolled it painfully along, swaying from side to side.
She walked to the witness-box with her smooth, noiseless tread, with the slightly swaying gait common in women of full figure.
Pan Vrublevsky came up to the table, swaying as he walked.
Inside, the carpets were rising and swaying on the water, and in five minutes the large pieces of furniture were beginning to crash against each other.
The carriage was swaying to and fro on the wall, which it had broken down, and which was rapidly giving way altogether.
There were also hundreds of torch-bearers and children swaying censers.
As the voices ceased, the bells began, and the tower rocked so that you could see it swaying backwards and forwards.
The creature had great dark eyes like a grisette of Bordeaux; and when she saw me, stood swaying upon her feet, and laughing as she bit at her apron-strings, as though my advent was an exceedingly humorous thing.
He found himself swaying his body in rhythm with the oars as coxswains do; or standing up to look at the white houses shorewards.
It was a broad sheet of water, at one end thickly fringed with trees, while in the shallower parts a forest of green, feathery reeds bordered it, swaying and rustling all day, no matter how soft the breeze.
Before her the men were swaying backwards and forwards, blocking the way to the track; her enemy's savage voice mingling with a lower one that was somehow familiar, though she could not tell what he said.
The carriage was swaying perilously, but Sir George saw that the ground was rising, and that up the hill he must win; and, taking his horse by the head, he lifted it on by sheer strength until his stirrup was abreast of the hind wheels.
He turned sharp to the left, and leaving the stable-man to stare after them, the lanthorn swaying in his hand, he led the way westward at the same steady trot.
During all this time Pratt had been standing meditatively swaying to and fro on his feet, chewing upon something which he held far back in his cheek.
There was power in the poise of her head and in the rhythmic swaying of her body, but her playing was curiously unfeminine.
Next, he is out on the tip end of a long, swaying branch.
The wagons and carts creaked and strained and rattled under their swaying loads, and the line gradually defined itself along the road from the confused jumble at the camp.
In place of the moonlit balcony was the figure of this young stranger swaying with his horse down between the hollowed shoulders of the Pine Mountains and reining up suddenly to sweep his broad hat low in front of her.
It was her hat swaying where she had hung it on a broken bough of the tree she liked to lean against.
Then he was inside, swaying again uncertainly upon his feet.
The effect of the double line of bodies swaying gracefully in the uncertain light of the lamp has an extremely picturesque effect.
Little boys of four or five may be seen on the outskirts of the practice-ground swayingtheir limbs and bodies in elaborate contortions which Europeans after a prolonged gymnastic training would execute very clumsily.
Strangely, she knew not how, he had succeeded in swaying her father, who had previously not more than tolerated him.
